"Team of Destiny".
Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeere's ROMAN!
I think it was like June 25 of last year, and I think it was a wild win over the Rockies (ok I just looked it up and it was June 25 and it was another 10-9 win over Colorado), when I called the Cubs a team of destiny in this blog.
They weren't. Unless "destiny" means getting your ass handed to you by the Diamondbacks.
It was the type of game you point to in October as proof of something special. Was today's Cubs win over the Rockies along the same lines?
Good God, Roman, have you ever even HEARD of the term "variance"? It was a 10-9 win. Just because the Rockies got all of their runs before the Cubs got their 2nd run doesn't make the win count for anything supernatural. Exciting to watch? Yes. Inspiring? Yes. Something worth talking about during the playoffs? Absofuckinglutely never in a million years. I repeat. The Chicago Cubs are just as likely to win the World Series now as they would have been had they won that game 1-0. How is this difficult to understand?
Last year was different because after that wild win, the Cubs were still around .500
Probably not the best thing to go around admitting that you claimed a .500 team was a "team of destiny" last season.
This season they have the best record in baseball and are supposed to win.
"Supposed to win"? The 2007 Cubs were not "supposed to win"?
But still, they've won so many games they should have lost. That usually bodes well in the big picture.
Saying a team "should have lost" a game is pretty stupid unless the umpires fucked up or somethting, first of all. Second, if the Cubs are winning games that they should be losing, then it would make more sense to predict a downfall in the future, not success. And finally, the Cubs are actually underperforming their Pythagorean, suggesting they deserve at least every win they've gotten this year.
A team of destiny? Who knows.
::raises hand:: Ooh! Ooh! Roman! I do! I do! Can I explain something to you? Can I? Hmmm? PLEASSSSEEE?????
THERE IS NO SUCH FUCKING THING AS A TEAM DESTINED TO WIN THE WORLD SERIES.
Hold on, you've been saying this for awhile despite me telling you otherwise. For your convenience, the above message will be copied and pasted until I get sick of typing CTRL-V. Ready? Go!
THERE IS NO SUCH FUCKING THING AS A TEAM DESTINED TO WIN THE WORLD SERIES.
THERE IS NO SUCH FUCKING THING AS A TEAM DESTINED TO WIN THE WORLD SERIES.
THERE IS NO SUCH FUCKING THING AS A TEAM DESTINED TO WIN THE WORLD SERIES.
THERE IS NO SUCH FUCKING THING AS A TEAM DESTINED TO WIN THE WORLD SERIES.
THERE IS NO SUCH FUCKING THING AS A TEAM DESTINED TO WIN THE WORLD SERIES.
THERE IS NO SUCH FUCKING THING AS A TEAM DESTINED TO WIN THE WORLD SERIES.
THERE IS NO SUCH FUCKING THING AS A TEAM DESTINED TO WIN THE WORLD SERIES.
THERE IS NO SUCH FUCKING THING AS A TEAM DESTINED TO WIN THE WORLD SERIES.
THERE IS NO SUCH FUCKING THING AS A TEAM DESTINED TO WIN THE WORLD SERIES.
THERE IS NO SUCH FUCKING THING AS A TEAM DESTINED TO WIN THE WORLD SERIES.
THERE IS NO SUCH FUCKING THING AS A TEAM DESTINED TO WIN THE WORLD SERIES.
THERE IS NO SUCH FUCKING THING AS A TEAM DESTINED TO WIN THE WORLD SERIES.
THERE IS NO SUCH FUCKING THING AS A TEAM DESTINED TO WIN THE WORLD SERIES.
THERE IS NO SUCH FUCKING THING AS A TEAM DESTINED TO WIN THE WORLD SERIES.
THERE IS NO SUCH FUCKING THING AS A TEAM DESTINED TO WIN THE WORLD SERIES.
THERE IS NO SUCH FUCKING THING AS A TEAM DESTINED TO WIN THE WORLD SERIES.
Kay?
Maybe they're not a team of destiny,
Whew. I think I got through to him!
but they sure are a scrappy bunch.
I never thought I'd have to point out an actual misuse of the word scrappy, but here it is. Roman, if you paid attention, 7 of the 9 runs the Cubs scored during their comeback were on homers. When the hell have you heard "homeruns" and the adjective "scrappy" associated with each other? Maybe they're just good at offense!
Down 8-0, down 9-1 and win 10-9. They have some type of special mojo going.
No. They have a good offense going. This is evidence of a good offense. Why is it so hard to attribute baseball-related successes in baseball to baseball-related reasons?
This wasn't a turning-point game, but it was another wild one.
Whew. Thank God there's nothing wrong with this sentence. My blood was just about at the boiling point.
That 2001 NY Yankees team seemed pretty destined to win the World Series... and that's as far as destiny goes I think. When the city is attacked by terrorists, Jeter makes the greatest play in the history of galactic sports, and you have countless bottom of the 9th, 2 out comebacks... that's destiny, no?
ReplyDeleteAnd they still lost the series.
This morning, Mike Lupica explained that he feels the Celtics will win the NBA championship this year because "it's Kevin Garnett's time."
ReplyDeleteFor some sports writers, it is not about analysis, it's about writing fancy stories that 'inspire the soul.' The fact that they have zero standing in reality doesn't matter.
And now that they're faced with sabermetrics, they're fighting it more than ever. They'll be damned if you'll see them using actual analysis instead of "gut feeling." So expect to continue to see crap like this. At least you won't run out of material anytime soon!
Did Ken Tremendous take over this blog?
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